Photographs

A groundsman inspects a crater in the middle of the pitch after a German bombing raid on December 22nd, 1941. The damage forced Manchester United to have one home game moved. The German Blitz bombing campaign of Great Britain took place between September 1940 and May 1941. Old Trafford was …

Nicolae Ceausescu (second from left, with jacket) pictured with other detainees in the Targu Jiu concentration camp, sometime in 1943. A shoemaker, Ceausescu joined the Communist party in 1932, at only 14 years old, and gained a reputation as an agitator and a thug. Between 1936 and 1944, Ceausescu spent …

Adolf Hitler with Romanian Prime Minister, Marshal Ion Antonescu (center, saluting), at the Wolf’s Lair (Wolfsschanze) in February 1942. On the left of the image is Dr. Paul Schmidt, chief interpreter of the German Foreign Ministry. During the meeting, Adolf Hitler assured Marshal Antonescu that he personally guarantees Hungary and …

German U-Boat commander pictured while looking down the hatch of his submarine. Further details about the photograph are unknown. Book suggestions ⤵️ 📖 Wolf: U-Boat Commanders in World War II (Jordan Vause, 1997) 📖 U-Boat War (Lothar Gunther Buchheim, 1986)

The Battle of the Kerch Peninsula was a conflict between Axis Forces (Germany and Romania) and the Soviet Union, which took place between December 1941 – May 1942. Germany’s victory in May 1942 allowed them to focus on the ongoing siege of Sevastopol (which was captured one month later), and …

The Tiger 1, a heavy tank produced between 1942 and 1944, was quite a remarkable design at its time, but it was also expensive to build and maintain. The Tiger 1 was employed in North Africa and Europe starting with 1942. On the Eastern front, it had problems when mud, …

Sharks circling survivors of USS Indianapolis in the Pacific Ocean. USS Indianapolis was sunk by Japanese torpedoes from the I-58 submarine on July 30th, 1945, after delivering parts of the atomic bomb which was eventually dropped on Hiroshima. Of 1195 men aboard, around 300 went down with the ship, while …

Rare WW2 image grabbed from the highly recommended memoirs of Wehrmacht Panzerjäger Hans Roth. In the photograph, Roth is pictured on the right, near his comrades, in front of a Sd Kfz 232 (Schwerer Panzerspähwagen) reconnaissance vehicle. The year is probably 1941. Book suggestion ⤵️ 📖 Eastern Inferno: Journals of …

Destroyed Reichstag building on June 3rd, 1945, one month after the fall of Berlin. The Reichstag was used by the German parliament until it was set on fire by communist Marinus van der Lubbe in 1933 – an event which the Nazi Party used to gain power just a few …

Some of the first Hungarian Jewish people to arrive at Auschwitz, held up for selection on the “Jewish ramp” in May 1944. You can see the famous main gate of Auschwitz II – Birkenau in the background. The image is part of the “Auschwitz Album”, a photographic record held by …